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Originally Posted by tvtimes
The government wouldn't allow them to deploy over head at the time would they? The cable companies had no choice but to dig up the roads.
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That is not strictly true if my memory serves me right. Although you are correct that the licensing for the new franchises were for underground systems. The old overhead systems (Some of these had underground Trunks) were under LDO licences.
When the governing body at the time took away the targets for the 'new' builds because operators were not meeting them, I believe they also deregulated and allowed any operator to provide services in any area. This left it open for the LDO overhead systems (Then owned by ntl) to upgrade these as they saw fit.
ntl chose to close the systems instead of utilising the underground ducts, poles and wayleaves to reach customers in new areas.